Musical Jokes

I've been inspired by many different forms of storytelling and music and have a vision of what I think would be interesting on stage and through a car stereo. I don't have much time to pursue them right now, though. But, here's an early version of a few jokes strung together with music. I was thrilled with it at the time, because I was just playing around with Band-in-a-Box, my new Roland Sound Canvas and Cool Edit Pro. I'm not as impressed with it ten years later and my wife just rolled her eyes at me when she heard it.

Listen to "Tree Elephants"

I remember putting a lot of these up on mp3.com, back in the heyday when you could make money for people listening to your stuff. The "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" was huge on mp3.com, even making something like $40k or $50k one year (probably about 1998 or 1999). I was trying everything to come up with something different and cool. Hey, not all experiments work, but you don't really know it until you try it.

I don't remember for sure, but I probably played around with "Tree Elephants" for hours. And, yes, what you hear there was the result. But, it was better than watching TV!

Bloggers Wall

Big delay between posts... the Bloggers Wall. You think you can do it regularly, but life interferes. Here's another joke:

Indian Weather Forecaster

Joke: Tire Iron

Here's another joke I produced back in the last century. It's kind of a lame joke but it was around the time I was experimenting with doing different voices and narrating over some of it. It didn't work out very well -- my voice sounds pretty distinctive in it's rhythm. If I did this one over, I'd probably try to get someone else to do the other voices.

Tire Iron